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Account Takeover Fraud Declines in Financial Services

Data Breach Today

Tighter Security Controls Help Stop Fraud, But Fake IDs and Web Scraping Are Rising Account takeover fraud in the financial services industry is declining in contrast with other industries such as retail and hospitality.

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4 Industries That Have to Fight the Hardest Against Cyberattacks

Security Affairs

However, cybercriminals target some industries at disproportionally high rates. The medical industry faces an exceptional risk for cyberattacks because there are so many players involved in the sector. Despite those risks, retailers make blunders when budgeting for cybersecurity. happened at retail establishments.

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2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report: Trends in Financial Services

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report: Trends in Financial Services madhav Tue, 10/15/2024 - 05:17 Financial services (FinServ) firms are key players in the global economy. Looking at FinServ firms’ top threats, ransomware attacks against this sector continue to grow, with 18% saying they had suffered an attack.

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Exclusive: Researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs

Security Affairs

The majority of intercepted credentials by Agent Tesla related to financial services, online-retailers, e-government systems and personal and business e-mail accounts. . Last year, Agent Tesla was spotted in highly targeted campaigns against the oil and gas industry.

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SHARED INTEL: ‘Credential stuffers’ leverage enduring flaws to prey on video game industry

The Last Watchdog

The video game industry saw massive growth in 2020; nothing like a global pandemic to drive people to spend more time than ever gaming. The video game industry withstood nearly 11 billion credential stuffing attacks in 2020, a 224 percent spike over 2019. LW: SQL injection persists, accounting for 59% of gaming industry attacks.

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TA505 Group adds new ServHelper Backdoor and FlawedGrace RAT to its arsenal

Security Affairs

” The TA505 group was first spotted by Proofpoint back 2017, it has been active at least since 2015 and targets organizations in financial and retail industries. “On December 13, 2018, we observed another large ServHelper “downloader” campaign targeting retail and financial services customers.”

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Hackers stole $60 Million worth of cryptocurrencies from Japanese Zaif exchange

Security Affairs

“Documents seen by Reuters on Thursday showed Japan’s Financial Services Agency would conduct emergency checks on cryptocurrency exchange operators’ management of customer assets, following the theft. Experts believe that the cyber heist will affect the FSA’s ongoing regulatory review of the cryptocurrency industry.